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O'NEILL, Thomas Philip, Jr. (Tip), a Representative from Massachusetts; born in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Mass., December 9, 1912; graduated from St. John's High School, 1931; graduated from Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Mass., 1936; insurance agent; realtor; member of the Massachusetts state house of representatives, 1936-1952, and speaker, 1949-1952; member of school committee, Cambridge, Mass., 1946-1947; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-third and to the sixteen succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1953-January 3, 1987); chair, Select Committee on Campaign Expenditures (Eighty-ninth through Ninety-second Congresses); majority whip (Ninety-second Congress), majority leader (Ninety-third and Ninety-fourth Congresses), Speaker of the House of Representatives (Ninety-fifth through Ninety-ninth Congresses); was not a candidate for reelection in 1986; died on January 5, 1994, in Boston, Mass.; interment in Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, Harwichport, Mass.

Boston College
John J. Burns Library

Chestnut Hill, MA

Papers:1936-1994. 428.25 feet.Personal and congressional papers and correspondence, photographs, portraits, audio cassettes, video cassettes, and memorabilia. Most of the material relate to O'Neill's career in Congress and document his views on such issues as the Vietnam War and Watergate. Also include files of his staff and Democratic Party committees. Finding aid in repository. Restricted.